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SLPS budget
9:48 pm
Thu April 21, 2011

Adams seeks more detail before presenting SLPS budget

Credit (Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio)
St. Louis Public Schools teacher Alice Lee speaks against possible layoffs of her and other library media specialists in the district. Superintendent Kelvin Adams delayed presenting the budget to have more discussion with the teacher's union.

Saying the process of collaboration is not what it should have been, St. Louis Public Schools superintendent Kelvin Adams delayed tonight  presenting his budget for the 2011-2012 school year.

The budget is likely to include layoffs and the closure of as many as three schools. Letters have already gone out to the parents at Bunche and Stevens middle schools, and Kottmeyer Big Picture High School, and library and media specialists from the district were out in force to protest the possibility that some of them may lose their jobs.

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SLPS parent forum
10:28 pm
Tue March 1, 2011

Low turnout at forum on changes to the SLPS

Credit (Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio)
Most of the crowd at Roosevelt High School listening to Dr. Kelvin Adams discuss his ideas for the St. Louis Public Schools were with the district.

To say that turnout last night at the St. Louis Public Schools' parent forum on possible major changes to district policy for next year was low would be an understatement.

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